Strategic Business Modeling

Strategic modeling of the business, using the Business Motivation Model (BMM), allows models created in Select Architect to be used to communicate and enhance business plans. This modeling activity, in turn, may be used to identify changes in business plans, and how they affect changes in systems (manual or as IT) modeled in business process models or UML models.

Business Process Modeling

Business Process Modeling (BPM) within Select Architect is used to clearly communicate the desired business workflows and processes. This ensures that delivered solutions meet the needs of the business and that the impact of change can be easily assessed. Notations for BPM include the BPMN. Component Based Development and design is achieved through extensions to UML and integrated component reuse, giving architects abstracted views for solution assembly.

UML Modeling

Select Architect is based on a pragmatic UML profile, focused on Component Based Development and business system design. Database design is catered for through Entity Relationship Diagrams and Table Relationship Diagrams, using the "crow's foot" notations familiar to DBAs and database designers.

Finally, free form diagrams are available just in case you need to do something different from the standard UML, BPMN, BMM or data modeling techniques. Select Architect's approach as a modeling tool is minimalist and easy to learn, while applying industry standards to supply all the tools needed for system design.

Select Architect allows complex IT applications to be modeled before commencing development, uncovering costly problems earlier in the development life cycle. It also acts as a store for intellectual property, which is invaluable during system maintenance, improvement and integration.

Relational Database Schema generation from UML designs and reverse engineering into models, to aid the understanding of your data.

Integrated design-time component supply and reuse.

In its own right, Select Architect is an incredibly powerful Business and Component Based Development modeling tool. As part of Select Solution Factory, Select Architect becomes the cornerstone for realizing all the benefits of Component Based Development – a step forward in Rapid Application Development (RAD).

Previous Versions

Select Architect has evolved from Select's OMT tool of the mid-1990s, which progressed to Select Enterprise, with early UML support, and Select Component Architect, before being renamed as Select Architect in the v7.0 release.